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Dr. Joshua Smith is a research scientist and team lead for IBM’s Nanobiotechnology Program. Around forty percent of the population will receive a cancer diagnosis within their lifetime. Accurate early diagnosis drastically increases the survival rate of most cancers. Current methods for diagnosis are invasive, costly, and not reliably accurate. Dr. Joshua Smith and his…

Molly Stevens Molly Stevens is a researcher and head of a bio lab that focuses on creating new bio materials that can be used in disease diagnosis and towards repairing bone and human tissue. They developed a gel that is injected into the periosteum layer. It creates a cavity that promotes the proliferation of the…

Dr. Chandran is currently serving as the Director of Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the Euan MacDonald Centre and Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic at the University of Edinburgh. 35 million people worldwide suffer from degenerative neurological disorders costing an average of 700 billion dollars annually, yet there is still not a recognized effective…

John B. Matson, Samuel I. Stupp Bio-materials made from small peptide chains are ideal for creating scaffolds for tissue regeneration. Small peptides can assemble into spheres, cylinders, tubes, and many other useful scaffolding structures. Classes of Filamentous Supra-molecular Scaffolds Peptide amphiphiles are short chain peptides with a hydrophobic tail attached to a lipid chain capable of self…

Matthew B. Murphy, Kathryn Moncivais, Arnold Caplan Recent studies have shown that mesenchymal stem cells originate as pericytes, an entity capable of responding to stimuli. Identification and Biology of MSCs Origin and Early Research Conheim first identified regenerative cells in the late 19th century. Mesenchymal cells were named in the laten 1980s due to their…

Maarten P. Bebelman, Martine J. Smit, Michiel Pegtel, S. Rubina Bagliof Exosomes are a group of vesicles created within endosomal chambers. Exosomes play a regulatory role in cell to cell communication. Exosomes can contribute to the progression of cancer by facilitating a link between stromal cells and tumors. Exosomes provide the hub network that connects…

C.K.F. Chan et al., “Identification of the human skeletal stem cell,” Cell, doi:10.1016/ j.cell.2018.07.029, 2018. Skeletal stem cells in humans, the bone marrow support cells, have been discovered. Researchers determined that these stem cells are self replicating and multipotent. Nonhematopoietic cells were taken from a human fetal femur and separated from blood precursors. The non…

Harvard University John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Bone marrow transplants utilizing hematopoietic stem cells are currently being used as an effective treatment to combat life threatening cancers and infections. A transfusion of blood stem cells from a matched donor is injected into the patient to “reset the blood and immune system.”…

Angela S. Mao, David J. Mooney Regenerative medicine is a medical practice focused on repairing tissue damage, replacing tissue and organs, and helping diminish the effects of congenital disorders. A major complication in organ transplantation, immune rejection, may be avoided entirely with the implementation of certain regenerative techniques for repairing damaged tissue. There are numerous…

Raghu Kalluri Exosomes have been shown to have a role in tumorigenesis through the regulation of angiogenesis, the immune response, and metastasis. What are the Functions of Exosomes? There is still not a clear definitive answer as to exosomes functions within the cell. Previous theories have suggested that exosomes are created to remove excessive or…

The American Academy of Stem Cell Physicians (AAOSCP) is an organization created to advance research and the development of therapeutics in regenerative medicine, including diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease related to or occurring within the human body. Secondarily, the AAOSCP aims to serve as an educational resource for physicians, scientists, and the public in diseases that can be caused by physiological dysfunction that are ameliorable to medical treatment.

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